Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer

Sierra
London
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeGBP 190,000 - 285,000 annuallyFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureExperience: 4+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Problem-solving"]

Join Sierra as a Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer to own the end-to-end deployment lifecycle for customer deployments, architect and manage Sierra's AI platform infrastructure across enterprise environments, ensure security and compliance, and build repeatable tooling while collaborating with Engineering, Product, Sales, and Customer Success.

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Sierra
Sierra
2 months ago

Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer

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Job Summary

Join Sierra as a Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer to own the end-to-end deployment lifecycle for customer deployments, architect and manage Sierra's AI platform infrastructure across enterprise environments, ensure security and compliance, and build repeatable tooling while collaborating with Engineering, Product, Sales, and Customer Success.
Location: London
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own deployment architecture conversations and execution—designing and implementing deployment strategies across customer environments, including VPC configuration, permissioning, networking, and infrastructure provisioning.
  • •Manage the full infrastructure lifecycle for Sierra’s most critical customers: initial deployment, ongoing upgrades, scaling, and incident support.
  • •Develop and maintain deployment runbooks, upgrade procedures, and automation tooling to make operations repeatable and reliable.
  • •Partner with engineering teams to ensure Sierra's platform is deployable and operable across diverse customer requirements.
  • •Work with customers' platform engineering, security, and DevOps teams to navigate their infrastructure constraints and compliance requirements.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: GBP 190,000 - 285,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •4+ years of experience in infrastructure, DevOps, platform engineering, or solutions architecture roles with significant time spent on customer-facing deployment work.
  • •Deep experience with AWS services, Terraform, container orchestration, and cloud networking (VPCs, IAM, DNS, load balancing).
  • •Track record of managing deployments in customer-owned cloud environments, including navigating security reviews, compliance requirements, and change management processes.
  • •Ability to navigate ambiguity with enterprise stakeholders—from platform engineers to CISOs—and turn infrastructure conversations into actionable deployment plans.
  • •Strong operational instincts: upgrades, rollbacks, monitoring, and failure modes are considered from the start.
Experience:4+ yearsCloudEnterpriseInfrastructureDevOpsPlatform engineering
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationProblem-solving
Tech Stack:AWSTerraformKubernetesVPCIAMDNSLoad balancingCI/CDGoGraphQLLLMPrometheusGrafanaDatadog

Company Brief

Sierra
Develops advanced AI agents and tools focused on building autonomous, generalist machine learning systems to assist developers and enterprises in automating complex workflows, decision-making, and application-level tasks.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
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